DEVELOPING EMPLOYMENT SKILLS / GENERIC SKILLS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

The design of a training model of a fundamental engineering discipline education integrates activities for the development of subject knowledge and its application in professionally oriented activities. This supports the formation and improvement of personal...

CENTENARIANS, OR THE OLDEST PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS IN BULGARIA

This article presents data from a research conducted to study the past and present of vocational schools in Bulgaria with more than a hundred years of history. The changes made in the field of vocational education and the introduction of dual learning provoked...

RURAL TOURISM – A POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS

The article set out the results of a study of the situation of rural tourism in the mountainous rural areas. Rural tourism is seen as part of the European Union‘s policy for the sustainable development of rural areas. The subject of research are tourist site...

CONTINUING TRAINING – NATURE, FORMS AND PREREQUISITES FOR DEVELOPMENT

In the modern high-tech and rapidly developing world, it is imperative to provide training opportunities for all adults throughout their live – especially for disadvantaged ones. Lifelong learning covers formal, non-formal and informal learning, whether fo...

TRADITIONS AND CHALLENGES TOWARDS THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

RESEARCH OF THE STRUCTURE OF LABORATORY SAMPLES FROM INNOVATIVE BUILDING MATERIAL CREATED BY MINERALS OF THE BLACK SEA BASIN

This report presents the structure of innovative building material with good thermal insulation properties. For the study used equipment, including the following types of highly sensitive electronic microscopes: PolyVacc, Mecatech 234, Metam LV-41. A concl...

THE ROLE OF BORDER POLICE VESSELS TO PROVIDE RELIABLE CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF THE MARITIME BORDER OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA

Bulgaria, as an external border of the EU, together with the other Black Sea countries, has responsibilities for control and security of its maritime border. That is why is established an integrated system for observation and protection of the Black Sea bo...

THE CLASS ROOM AS A PLACE FOR READING

The text presents the activities on an inter-school initiative “Read Me!”, realized during the school year 2016/2017. Non-traditional approaches and techniques are introduced to encourage reading among primary school students in more than 100 schools from di...

VARIANT OF A LESSON FOR PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES IN 6TH GRADE ON CLIMATE AND WATER IN SOUTH AMERICA TOPIC

The present showing of a practical lesson aims to share a good practice for conducting open type of lesson in the 6th grade in order to show good methodical practices in front of teachers in geography and economics. The main task of the lecturer was to present...

ANALYSIS OF EPIC WORK

The article offers a possible model for analytical reading that can be applied to any epic text. A second episode of Ivan Vazov’s story “One Bulgarian Woman” was used. Among the questions to be answered are: What is your idea of artistic literature? Which w...

SCHOOL OF JOY

The article presents “Konstantin Konstantinov” Secondary School as a place that does not tolerate aggression or the division of children by sex, ethnic or social origin. The school develops extensive extracurricular and sports activities. His alumni win many...

“KEEPING NATURE” ECOLOGICAL EXPEDITION

For several years, we work as a team on health education, healthy lifestyles and nature conservation topics. The aim is to build positive and stimulating environment for each child to reveal with no concerns his thoughts and ideas. To express his personal...

AN APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE TRAINING IN THE 7TH GRADE

The article offers a possible solution for integrating new technologies into Bulgarian language and literature training in 7th grade and for applying the interdisciplinary approach in the review and summary lessons. Presented is an alternative to traditional...

CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER – A TERRITORY OF STUDENT’S TALENT

The article presents the activities of Children’s musical theater “Grasshopper”. Presented are the activities of a class who worked for 4 years under the idea. Other students, participants in Children’s music theater „Grasshopper in the Ear“, now continue t...

THE COMPUTER IN PRIMARY EDUCATION – A CHALLENGE OR A NECESSITY

Modern information technologies can be useful in primary education not only as learning subject related to the acquisition of basic computer literacy. They can also be a mean for teaching other compulsory and optional subjects, source of knowledge, universa...